Corn slitter and scraper.



R. M. PANCOAST. CORN SLITTER AND SGRAPER. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 4, 1910.

Patented Feb. 7, 1911.

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13 6 1tknOW11 that I, RICHARD PAvcoasT, a citlzen of the United States, residing at UNITED STAZELTENT OFFICE.

CORN SLITTER AND SCRAPER.

Application filed August 4, 910. serial No. 575,54eI-f Camden, in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, have invented certain'new and useful ImprovementsinCorn Slitters and Scrapers, of "which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is the production of a simple, cheap and eflicient implementor means for slitting grains of green' corn while on the earand also for removing the kernels, when so desired, after the grains have been slit.

lhe invention consists in an implement for the purpose specified having certain novelties of construction and formation, as hereinafte-r set forth and claimed. I

The accompanying drawing illustrates two examples of the physical embodiment of the invention constructed according to the best modes of procedure I have so far devised.

Figure 1 is a view in perspective of the first example. Fig. 2 is a side or edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective and on an enlarged scale of one of the teeth. Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of the second example. Fig. 5 is a side or edge view thereof. Fig. 6 is an enlarged view in perspective of one of the teeth.

1 Each example of the slitter and scraper may be made from sheet metal by cutting out suitably shaped blanks, pressing or stamping the blan s to the required shapes, and then finishing the same; or each may be fashioned in any other way, as by casting.

Referring to both the examples, the numeral 1 designates the body of the implement slightly concave-convex longitudinally, with at least one of its side edges 2, 2,

slightly concave in shape, and provided with integral teeth 3 struck up from the concave surface of the body of the metal so as to project substantially in parallel planes from the concave surface.

together as to insure that one tooth at least will engage each grain of a row of grains when the implement is moved longitudinally along an ear of corn. It will he noted that the points or ends of the series of teeth lie in a curved line which in a measure conforms to a part" of the external curvature of the surface of an ear ofcorn, whereby the'grains in the rows each side of a central row will Specification of Letters Patent.

land 3, are six in number, etic edges thereof sharpened; in ii'ii s t cause the very soft or 'iiiiinatii 'currence is obviated.

The teeth are uni-5 formly spaced apart and sulticiently near RICHARD M. PANCOAST, or CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR T0. LAURA-'ii 12" 'Ncons'r,

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be slit to-the properdepth, grains of the central ro Q fig.

- The teeth in the first 'exanip e, I

shape and having a point, ant

to provide cutting edges 1' 1o 3. As the points of these teeth, I

grains to splash while being slit, the sud den breaking into such grains by the points causing the splash, I have provided a form of tooth shown by the second example, Figs.

4, 5 and 6, whereby this objectionable oc- In this second cxample the teeth are of the same size, but round- "ed at the ends, so that in use they give a shearing cut when they pass through the outer covering into the kernels. By rounding off the tips of the teeth and making them one-sixth less in height than the pointed teeth, one more tooth can be cut and struck up from the body of the metal when of the same length of body as shown in the second example. The second and preferable form 0 of the implement as shown by Figs. 4: 5 and 6 thus has seven teeth.

At the ends of the series of teeth and projecting beyond the same are flanges 4t and 5 which serve the double purpose of guiding 5 the implement on the ear of corn when in use and very materially protecting the teeth from becoming nicked or dulled by contact with other utensils or with themselves when being washed and handled oif the table.

One of the side edges 2, 2 of the body, as before stated, is preferably concave, or cut away on a curved line, whereby the implement is guided and held in'position when the edge is used in scraping the slit grains to remove the kernels from the ear. v

At one end of the body of the implement a handle (3 is provided, the same extending from the upper edge of the flange 5 and substantially in the same direction as the length of the body portion. This handle may be two and a half times the length of the body portion and curved one-fourth of its length, as shown; or it may be otherwise shaped.

In use the implement is moved in either direction longitudinally of an ear of corn with the teeth engaging the grains. When the grains have been slit the implement is turned at right. angles to its previous posi-' tion and a concave edge 2 brought in conmet with the slit "grains and the kernels thus removed or scraped from the ear.

While I have referred to the implement as made of sheet metal, it may, when desired, be made-by castin the same to the desired shade, the body, anges,'teeth and handle pre erably being integrally fashioned.

What I claim is:

1. An integral'metallic slitter comprising a concayo convex body portion, a series of teeth struck from the metal and turned up so'as to projectfrom the concave surface of the body portion, a flange at each end of the series of teeth, and a handle extending from the edgeof one of said flanges and in a direction substantially at'ri'ght angles to the parallel planes of the teeth and flanges.

2. An integral metallic slitter comprising a body portion of concavo-oonvex shape longitudinally and narrower at the central portion than at'its ends, a series of teeth with rounded edges struck from the metal and turned up so as to project from the concave surface of the body portion, fianges'on'e at each end of said body portion, and a handle extended in a direction substantially at right angles to the substantially parallel flanges.

In testimony whereof Iaflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

v RICHARD M. PANCOAST.

- \Vitnesses: I

'R. M. P NooAsr, J r.,

L. T. PAnooAs'r. 

